Julian Assange continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New [...]
Portugal follows the pattern of the rest of Europe, where left-behind people and places are turning to the far-right to revolt against the status quo. João Almeida is a PhD Candidate in Business and Economics [...]
Analysis of the UN Security Council’s belated support for a ceasefire in Gaza. Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. [...]
The US has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so. The UK court’s latest ruling is yet more collusion in his show trial Jonathan Cook [...]
Winning the Battle but Losing the War, From Ukraine to Israel Dominic Tierney is the Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the [...]
Much of the West’s response to the terrorist attack in Moscow betrays embittered bias and a disgraceful failure of elementary compassion and fairness. Tarik Cyril Amar (@TarikCyrilAmar) is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç [...]
NATO was defeated in Afghanistan. It is unlikely to make great gains against Russia. Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the Fragility of US Power (New [...]
It is not only the warcrimes committed by Israeli soldiers. It’s the glee they show while doing so. Just like the German Nazis, we now have the Israeli Nazis. Norman Finkelstein is is an American [...]
Book Review by Branko Milanović Vladislav M. Zubok’s splendid “Collapse” is a chronicle of the break-up of the Soviet Union. It opens with the appointment of Yuri Andropov in 1985 and ends at Christmas 1991 [...]